Laser 4.7 World Championships Day 3 - Pin end crowd

by Paige Brooks on 31 Jul 2011 Laser 4.7 World Championships day 3, St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Saturday morning on San Francisco Bay saw clearing skies for the first race of the day for the girls fleet. After noticing the big opportunity that Greek sailor Athanasia Fakidi found yesterday to port tack the fleet from the very open pin end, 'the girls today,' according to photographer Chris Ray, 'crowded the pin end RC boat, which actually got tapped a few times.' No stone goes unturned with these girls. After a long course, Greek sailor Vasileia Karachaliou rounded the leeward mark ahead of the fleet, only to be passed by two of her competitors as they headed back upwind. Kim Plitkin finished first, but was OCS; regatta leader Cecilia Zorzi, ITA got the win, followed by Karachaliou and Nagisa Karis Sakai of Hong Kong.

While the girls start their second race, a gun at the club goes off indicating it’s time for the 112 boys to get their boats from the lawn, down the drive, to the ramp, and off the dock before the girls come in. It’s a quick and efficient process that the Club put together in order to navigate the single ramp that all 165 boats have to go up and down every day. When a fleet arrives at the dock after racing, volunteers meet them with a dolly, the sailor takes the boat up the ramp, around a loop to a hosing station, and then back to the lawn where they carefully and meticulously go over the boat and check for any equipment in need of repair or replacement.

In the second of the girls’ races, Italian Anna Liebman won the race, but Cecilia Zorzi is still winning the event with only six points after six races. Kim Pletikin, in second with 21 points, and Line Hoest, in third with 29, will face a tough challenge over the next three days to hold their places and get ahead of Zorzi.

The boys’ yellow and blue fleets started on time at 1400 today; after a recall, the races started under black flag and nine boats were flagged. After all clear starts in both fleets, the boys headed upwind in a building ebb with wind ranging from 13-17 knots. The wing marks tended to make the race into a contact sport as the boys converged to get the closest rounding they can, jibe, and head to the leeward mark on a high speed reach. The teachings of Dave Perry come to mind (if you see a big cluster at the mark, go around it and at all costs avoid protests) as the boats squeezed together, hailed protest, and slowed each other down.

Nevertheless, the Spanish regatta leaders Francisco Gonzalez in first with six points and Carlos Rosello in second with ten points, along with Hong Kong’s Keiju Okada in third with 22 points bobbed and weaved their way through the traffic and on to top finishes.

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Results Laser 4. 7 Girls

 
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No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	ITA 200480	Zorzi Cecila	6.0	(5)	1	1	1	1	2
2	SLO 198483	Pletikos Kim	21.0	1	3	5	6	(ocs)	6
3	NOR 194765	Höst Line Flem	29.0	12	2	2	7	6	(24)
4	GRE 183545	Fakidi Athanasia	32.0	3	(bfd)	4	3	17	5
5	GRE 194857	Karachaliou Vasileia	36.0	9	(bfd)	8	13	2	4
6	NOR 198747	Herud Celine Therese	38.0	18	(bfd)	6	4	7	3
7	TUR 198917	Yentur Zeynep	42.0	6	6	16	2	(25)	12
8	ESP 196946	Luque Gonzalez Yolanda GranCan	42.0	4	(bfd)	18	5	4	11
9	HKG 122064	Sakai Nagisa Karis	45.0	2	14	(23)	8	3	18
10	ITA 193660	Liebman Anna	65.0	(41)	22	12	12	18	1
11	BRA 197089	Silva Julia	72.0	25	9	13	(27)	11	14
12	SUI 197161	Van Campenhoudt Marine	76.0	14	15	9	(45)	13	25
13	USA 165073	Bushnell Lola	77.0	30	5	11	9	22	(37)
14	SLO 174363	Peternelj Eva	77.0	7	18	27	(39)	15	10
15	BEL 201051	Van de Loock Laura	78.0	13	(bfd)	3	17	24	21
16	ITA 195487	Modena Camilla	79.0	15	10	21	20	(38)	13
17	CRO 196187	Prtenjaca Nikolina	82.0	10	23	19	(26)	23	7
18	AUS 196421	Bennett Milly	87.0	19	8	(42)	11	29	20
19	SUI 199846	Jayet Maud	88.0	11	(bfd)	31	18	19	9
20	SIN 185404	Siew Kiah Hui Savannah	90.0	8	11	20	31	20	(40)
21	AUS 169684	Chesterman Sophie	92.0	(37)	20	14	29	10	19
22	USA 188912	Bryer Rachel	96.0	28	16	(34)	24	12	16
23	GBR 199438	Asplund Johanna	99.0	23	7	30	23	16	(32)
24	CRO 182661	Kacan Antonela	101.0	21	(bfd)	29	28	8	15
25	USA 194042	Weaver Hanne	111.0	45	4	10	10	42	(ocs)
26	ARG 159970	Zalazar Maria Florencia	111.0	24	19	26	16	(34)	26
27	CRO 186212	Hamerlitz Anja	111.0	17	(bfd)	22	22	21	29
28	JPN 196486	Kunimi Ayano	119.0	22	(bfd)	33	15	32	17
29	ITA 193583	Caruso Bianca	124.0	31	(bfd)	15	21	26	31
30	SLO 196239	Janezic Lea Dora	126.0	16	(bfd)	28	35	39	8
31	SIN 185781	Goh Su Min Rebecca	130.0	29	(bfd)	24	36	14	27
32	USA 191985	Naughton Sophie	133.0	(44)	12	32	25	30	34
33	AUS 184674	Barton Emma	139.0	27	(bfd)	7	37	40	28
34	ITA 196211	Frazza Francesca	140.0	(46)	21	38	14	37	30
35	USA 176237	Hughes Hannah	143.0	36	13	(47)	41	31	22
36	USA 164258	White Maeve	145.0	32	(bfd)	17	46	27	23
37	GER 181610	Edinger Nadine	151.0	(48)	26	39	38	5	43
38	GER 193240	Hinders Sonka	152.0	40	17	43	19	(48)	33
39	JPN 199062	Murayama Hitomi	169.0	26	(bfd)	25	49	28	41
40	IND 195372	Sadanandan Shweta	170.0	43	24	(48)	48	9	46
41	IND 190923	Charles Shaila	173.0	(47)	28	45	32	33	35
42	SIN 182202	Ho Airiel	175.0	20	(raf)	37	30	dne	36
43	USA 198386	Mackey Sarah	192.0	(50)	29	35	34	47	47
44	ARG 164030	Rivas Ines	193.0	34	30	40	43	46	(48)
45	HKG 180992	Mascia Sofia-Marie	195.0	33	25	49	50	(dsq)	38
46	IND 195378	Nedunchezhiyan Aishwarya	198.0	39	32	(50)	47	41	39
47	ARG 146046	Varela Dasso Lucia	200.0	35	27	51	44	43	(ocs)
48	AUS 184702	Vaughan Anna	203.0	42	31	36	(51)	45	49
49	USA 199347	Kardek Haley	203.0	49	(bfd)	44	33	35	42
50	USA 158824	Goethe Hannah	206.0	38	(bfd)	46	42	36	44
51	USA 192949	Dana Francesca	221.0	51	(bfd)	41	40	44	45

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